At least four militants were killed in a firefight yesterday as the Jordanian police continued to round up suspects in what authorities have described as a major plot to bomb American and Jordanian government targets, according to officials in Amman....

April 21, 2004, Wednesday

By PATRICK E. TYLER; Elaine Sciolino in Paris, Desmond Butler and Richard Bernstein in Berlin and Tim Golden in New York contributed reporting for this article

With a new threat of terrorism coursing through Europe, intelligence and police authorities say they are acting more aggressively, with greater emphasis on pre-emptive action to roll up networks of Islamic militants whose members may not have...

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, the ancient Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés is a picture of European multiculturalism. Spanish matrons with sprayed helmets of golden hair stroll arm in arm with husbands wearing black berets. A young man with a...

A key suspect in the Madrid terror attacks came under close scrutiny from law-enforcement and intelligence officials in at least three countries last year after bombings by Islamic militants in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, European law...

March 17, 2004, Wednesday

A German appeals court ordered a retrial on Thursday for Mounir el-Motassadeq, the only person successfully prosecuted for involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. Complaining that crucial evidence had been withheld by the German and American...

March 5, 2004, Friday

The terrorism investigation code-named Mont Blanc began almost by accident in April 2002, when authorities intercepted a cellphone call that lasted less than a minute and involved not a single word of conversation. Investigators, suspicious that...

March 4, 2004, Thursday

When Hermann Maier streaked past the red line into first place in Saturday's World Cup downhill, all of Austria seemed to erupt with shouts, drums and cowbells. Maier, the country's greatest skier, looked up at the race board, which showed him...

The landscape of the terrorist threat has shifted, many intelligence officials around the world say, with more than a dozen regional militant Islamic groups showing signs of growing strength and broader ambitions, even as the operational power of Al...

February 8, 2004, Sunday

Citing a refusal by the United States to allow testimony from a suspected member of Al Qaeda in its custody, a German court on Thursday acquitted a former roommate of Mohamed Atta who was accused of providing support to suicide pilots in the Sept....

February 6, 2004, Friday

A witness appearing under the alias Hamid Reza Zakeri and claiming to be a defected Iranian spy told a court in Hamburg that Abdelghani Mzoudi, a Moroccan on trial for involvement in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was trained as an encryption expert in...